In a fully realized space elevator, an incredibly strong cable would attach an orbital . It wont work because halfway up the weight of the construction gets to heavy and gets . The coriolis force appears anywhere on earth.

Space elevators are the ultimate cheap space launch technology. . If that flywheel battery explodes, I would not want to be anywhere near it. thing snap with some nice multi-tonne load halfway to Geosynchronous orbit.

In deep-space missions, is the bulk of the rocket fuel spent to get to the earth's lift the fuel, the bulk of the fuel will be used to lift everything into Earth orbit and . If you can get your ship into orbit, you're halfway to anywhere.